What is Your Good Name?

The opening remark for most people trying to have a conversation, or just have some little interaction with the foreigner, is this quaint question. Quaint, until it becomes boring, intrusive, interrupting, or rude, depending on the circumstances and the questioner. But now I've found a satisfactory answer when the question annoys: "Angelina Jolie". Everyone knows that name; everyone. I thought of this after a shop keeper, in all apparent sincerity, asked, after "Where are you coming from?" ("USA", my stock response), "You are a filim [sic] actress-star?" Pause, consider, what would be the international implications of saying yes? I just couldn't bring myself to this particular outrageous lie, so I told the truth: "No, advocate." Turned out to be almost as impressive to her. So satisfying!